For VB.NET Experts, Measuring All sides of two figures

[wbadry]

Hi,

Briefly speaking, I have two shapes (images included). I'd like to match them with color template (done easily with Color Pattern Matching). I thereafter want to measure the length of each side (maybe using rake better than caliper I think since the actual images may not form perfect straight line).

So this could be smmarised in :

• Find Each Color Pattern (score and angle)
• Measure all four sides of each shape (in pixels, then conversion to real world unit is easy)
•  display results

I know it is very trivial process. I blame myself for being away from IMAQ for 3 months. I'm under stress and hope to receive this help from my friends here.

I hope you can post "the solution project" and not only ideas. Thanks colleagues.

[riscoh]

What if you use CWIMAQPatternMatchReportItem.BoundingPoints to create another region for the rake or caliper...

Basically the steps are...

- Find color pattern

- use CWIMAQPatternMatchReportItem object to obtain detected pattern coordinates

- create a new region(s) based on the pattern coordinates for the Rake method to measure the sides

- display results

If I get a chance I'll try and create a simple application, looks like an interesting project...